1. Gay and Lesbian Games #5 open in Amsterdam - 1998
2. M2, MTV's second TV channel is launched - 1996
3. Westinghouse purchases CBS-TV network - 1995
4. 99.9 degrees F (37.7 degrees C) in Berlin-Dahlem: record - 1994
5. The Rolling Stones begin Voodoo Lounge world tour - 1994
6. Train crash in Havana Cuba, 6 killed - 1994
7. "In the Summer House" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 25 performances - 1993
8. Missie Berteott wins LPGA Ping/Welch's Golf Championship - 1993
9. Reggie Jackson enshrined in Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York - 1993
10. "She Loves Me" closes at Criterion Theater New York City after 61 performances - 1993
11. Walter Koenig, Checkov of Star Trek, suffers a heart attack - 1993
12. NBC's "Saturday Today" premieres - 1992
13. "Salome" closes at Circle in Sq Theater New York City after 9 performances - 1992
14. USA/U.S.S.R. Around World Air Race begins at Santa Monica - 1992
15. Actress Hedy Lamarr, 77, arrested for shoplifting in Florida - 1991
16. Italian/Argentine Soccer star Diego Maradona retires - 1991
17. "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" closes at Eugene O'Neill New York City after 149 performances - 1990
18. Indians' Alex Cole sets club record with 5 stolen bases in one game - 1990
19. Iraq pulls out of talks with Kuwait - 1990
20. Soyuz TM-10 launches - 1990
21. Stanton Cook becomes CEO of Chicago Cubs - 1990
22. Australia take 3-0 series lead over England to regain Cricket Ashes - 1989
23. Deep Rover 1-man research submarine unveiled at Crater Lake, Oregon - 1988
24. Bananarama's Siobhan Fahey marries Eurythmics Dave Stewart - 1987
25. Crossbow flight record (2,005 yds 1'9") set by Harry Drake in Nevada - 1987
26. Mike Tyson beat Tony Tucker in 12 for heavyweight boxing title - 1987
27. Nurse Mary R. Stout chosen chairperson of Vietnam Veterans of America - 1987
28. Bert Blyleven becomes 10th pitcher to strike out 3,000 - 1986
29. Cleveland sets AL attendance record for twi-night doubleheader, 65,934 - 1986
30. Grateful Dead's Jerry Garcia release from hospital after 3 week coma - 1986
31. Tennis ace John McEnroe marries actress Tatum O'Neal - 1986
32. 15.4 cm rainfall at Cheyenne, Wyoming (state record) - 1985
33. Emmy 12th Daytime Award presentation - Susan Lucci loses for 6th time - 1985
34. Vince Coleman steals 2 bases in 1st inning, for NL rookie record 74 - 1985
35. New Zealand score their 1st Test Cricket match victory in England - 1983
36. Beth Daniel wins LPGA Columbia Savings Golf Classic - 1982
37. Greg Louganis, U.S. becomes 1st diver to score 700 (752.67) in 11 dives - 1982
38. Heavy Israeli air bombardment on Beirut - 1982
39. Petra Schneider swims world record 400m medley (4:36.10) - 1982
40. MTV premieres at 12:01 AM - 1981
41. Poland premier Jagielski resigns - 1981
42. Gerd Wessig of East Germany set high jump record - 1980
43. Waldemar Cierpinski wins 19th olympics marathon (2:11:03 - 1980
44. Maria de Lurdes Pintasilgo forms government in Portugal - 1979
45. Braves stop Reds Pete Rose's hitting streak at 44 games - 1978
46. Commandos occupy Iraqi embassy in Paris, 1 dead - 1978
47. Pete Rose goes hitless, ends his 44 game hitting streak (ties NL) - 1978
48. San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey hits NL record 18th grand slammer - 1977
49. 21st Olympic games close at Montreal Canada - 1976
50. Flash flood in Big Thompson Canyon Colorado on Route 34, kills 139 - 1976
51. Liz Taylor's 6th divorce (re-divorces Richard Burton) - 1976
52. Seattle Seahawks play 1st (preseason) game (SF 27, Seattle 20) - 1976
53. 38 government leaders signs Helsinki accord - 1975
54. 41st NFL Chicago All-Star Game: Pittsburgh 21, All-Stars 14 (54,103) - 1975
55. Billy Martin replaces Bill Virdon as manager of New York Yankees - 1975
56. Helsinki Pact guaranteeing boundaries, rights signed by 35 nations - 1975
57. Virginia Squires trade Julius "Dr. J" Erving to New York Nets - 1974
58. H. J. Witteveen appointed as director of IMF - 1973
59. Munson and Fisk get into a brawl at Fenway Park - 1973
60. 1st article exposing Wategate scandal (Bernstein-Woodward) - 1972
61. Nate Colbert of San Diego Padres hits record tying 5 home runs in a double header - 1972
62. Bangladesh refugee concert with George Harrison - 1971
63. CBS presents Masterpiece Theatre's 6 Wives of Henry VIII - 1971
64. George Harrison's concert for Bangladesh takes place in New York City - 1971
65. Joanne Carner wins LPGA Bluegrass Golf Invitational - 1971
66. EAA Convention moves from Rockford Illinois to Oshkosh, Wi - 1970
67. KTSD TV channel 10 in Pierre, SD (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1970
68. Willie Stargell (Pirates) ties record of 5 extra base hits in a game - 1970
69. 110,000 attend Atlantic City Pop Festival - 1969
70. 36th NFL Chicago All-Star Game: New York Jets 26, All-Stars 24 (74,208) - 1969
71. Mariner 6 sends close-up photo's of Mars - 1969
72. Canada begins replacing silver with nickel in coins - 1968
73. Cleveland Metroparks begins operating Zoo - 1968
74. WXIX TV channel 19 in Cincinnati-Newport, OH (IND) begins broadcasting - 1968
75. Izaak Samkalden becomes mayor of Amsterdam - 1967
76. WBRA TV channel 15 in Roanoke, Virginia (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1967
77. Charles Whitman climbs University of Texas tower and shoots 12 dead - 1966
78. Former marine Charles Whitman kills 13 and wounds 31 at University of Texas - 1966
79. Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Waterloo Golf Open - 1965
80. ALM (Antillian Airlines) begins operation - 1964
81. Beatles' "Hard Day's Night, A," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks - 1964
82. Beatles Book is sold out on its 1st day of sale - 1963
83. Germany FR annexes Elten village - 1963
84. WQAD TV channel 8 in Moline, IL (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1963
85. Boston Red Sox Bill Monboquette no-hits Chicago White Sox, 1-0 - 1962
86. Failed assassination on president Nkrumah of Ghana - 1962
87. Benaud rips through England team for Aussie win at Old Trafford - 1961
88. German DR limits traffic to West Berlin - 1961
89. New San Francisco Hall of Justice opens - 1961
90. Whitney Young, Jr. named executive director of National Urban League - 1961
91. Aretha Franklins 1st recording session - 1960
92. Benin (Dahomey) gains independence from France - 1960
93. Chubby Checker releases "The Twist" - 1960
94. New Continental baseball league formed - 1959
95. Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Sacerdotii nostri primordia - 1959
96. WAAY TV channel 31 in Huntsville, AL (ABC/NBC) begins broadcasting - 1959
97. 1st class postage up to 4 cents (had been 3 cents for 26 years) - 1958
98. U.S. atomic sub USS Nautilus 1st dives under North Pole - 1958
99. 1st coml building heated by Sun (Albuquerque NM) - 1957
100. Gil Hodges hits his NL record 13th career grand slam (Last by Bkln) - 1957
101. Glen Gorbous throws a baseball a record 136 m (445'10") - 1957
102. U.S. and Canada create NORAD - 1957
103. KRCR TV channel 7 in Redding-Chico, California (ABC) begins broadcasting - 1956
104. 1st microgravity research begins - 1955
105. Tengku Abdul Rahman forms Malacca government - 1955
106. WILL TV channel 12 in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois (PBS) begins broadcasting - 1955
107. Louison Bobet wins his 2nd Tour de France - 1954
108. WKBT TV channel 8 in La Crosse, Wisconsin (CBS) begins broadcasting - 1954
109. California introduces sales tax, for education - 1953
110. Fidel Castro arrested in Cuba - 1953
111. KMBC TV channel 9 in Kansas City, Missouri (MET/ABC) begins broadcasting - 1953
112. KOBI TV channel 5 in Medford, OR (NBC) begins broadcasting - 1953
113. Northern Rhodesia becomes part of Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland - 1953
114. Red Sox Ben Flowers sets then record of 8 consecutive games in relief - 1953
115. David Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election - 1951
116. 1st Major League baseball player to fight in Korea (Curt Simmons) - 1950
117. American Bowling Congress ends all-white-males rule - 1950
118. Guam adopts constitution (Organic Act) - 1950
119. King Leopold of Belgium abdicates, Baudouin becomes King - 1950
120. "Medium and The Telephone" opens at Barrymore Theater New York City for 211 performances - 1947
121. Valleivogels soccer team forms in Scherpenzeel - 1947
122. President Truman establishes Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) - 1946
123. Japanese city Toyama destroyed by B-29's - 1945
124. Mel Ott is 1st in NL to hit 500th HR (joins Babe Ruth and Jimmy Foxx) - 1945
125. SVBO soccer team forms in Barger-Oosterveld - 1945
126. Adam Clayton Powell elected 1st black congressman from East - 1944
127. Anne Frank's last diary entry; 3 days later she is arrested - 1944
128. General Montgomery takes command of 12th and 21st army - 1944
129. U.S. 90th division occupies St. Hilaire-du-Harcourt - 1944
130. U.S. troops enter Tessy-sur-Vir - 1944
131. Uprising in Warsaw ghetto - 1944
132. Japan declares Burma Independence under U Ba Maw - 1943
133. Race riot in Harlem New York City - 1943
134. Sunderland seaplanes sink U-454 and U-383 - 1943
135. Deurne soccer team forms - 1942
136. German occupier demands listing of all Dutch telephone subscribers - 1942
137. Race riots in Harlem, New York - 1942
138. Luftwaffe bombs German 23rd division - 1941
139. New York Yankee Lefty Gomez walks most (11) in a shutout (Yanks 9, St. L 0) - 1941
140. Adolph Hitler opens 11th Olympic Games in Berlin - 1936
141. Benjamin E. Mays named president of Morehouse College - 1936
142. Carl Hubbell sets record of consecutive scoreless innings (45 1/3) - 1933
143. Death penality for anti fascists in Germany - 1933
144. Dutch colonial regime in Batavia arrest ir Sukarno - 1933
145. Babe Ruth hits HR # 42 and is 4 weeks ahead of his 1927 pace - 1928
146. Earliest date for a film to be considered for the Academy Awards - 1927
147. Battles between Druzen and French in Damascus - 1926
148. Failed assassination on Gen Primo de Rivera in Barcelona - 1926
149. Shortwave-radio link between Kootwijk and Netherland East-Indies - 1925
150. Hendrikus Colijn becomes political editor-in-chief of The Standard - 1922
151. Papendrecht soccer team forms - 1920
152. Peace of Riga-Independence of Latvia - 1920
153. Queen Wilhelmina opens 1st Air Fair in Amsterdam - 1919
154. Treffers soccer team forms in Groesbeek - 1919
155. British troops enter Vladivostok - 1918
156. Pittsburgh Pirates beat Boston Braves, 2-0, in 21 innings - 1918
157. Hawaii National Park forms - 1916
158. British fleet reaches Scapa Flow - 1914
159. Emperor Wilhelm II declares war on his nephew tsar Nicolas II (WW I) - 1914
160. France and Germany mobilize - 1914
161. Trois Vierges: German 69th infantry regiment enter Luxembourg Germany declares war on Russia in WW I - 1914
162. Omar N Bradley (18) begins education in West Point - 1911
163. British SS Waratah disappears on Sydney to London, 300 killed - 1909
164. Bank of Italy opens 1st branch at 3433 Mission Street, SF - 1907
165. Signal Corps of U.S. Army starts aircraft division - 1907
166. Bkln Dodger Harry McIntire no-hits Pitts for 10 2/3 loses in 13th - 1906
167. 1st coast-to-coast automobile trip (SF-NY) completed - 1903
168. Building begins on Dutch public housing - 1902
169. Mine accident in Wollongong, Australia, 100 die - 1902
170. Burial within San Francisco City limits prohibited - 1901
171. George Samuelson completes rowing Atlantic (New York to England) - 1896
172. Henry Perky and William Ford patent shredded wheat - 1893
173. Cecil Rhodes' colonies reach Lundi - 1890
174. Great Britain annexes Kermadec-Island near New Zealand - 1886
175. A papyrus offered to British Museum for 10,000 pounds, forgery - 1883
176. Amsterdam's Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky gets electric lights - 1883
177. Inland postal service begins in Great Britain - 1883
178. U.S. Quarantine Station authorized for Angel Island, San Francisco Bay - 1881
179. Colorado becomes 38th state - 1876
180. San Francisco's 1st cable car begins service - 1873
181. 1st voyage down Colorado River - 1869
182. Blacks vote for 1st time in a state election in South - 1867
183. Battle of Petersburg, Virginia - 1864
184. Battle of Little Rock AK and Start of Chattanooga campaign - 1863
185. Cavalry action near Brandy Station-End of Gettysburg Campaign - 1863
186. Brazil recognizes Confederacy - 1861
187. Castle Clinton in New York City opens as 1st U.S. receiving station for immigrants - 1855
188. San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist - 1852
189. Rotherhithe Thames Tunnel opens - 1842
190. Emancipation of British slaves on Bahamas - 1838
191. HMS Beagle/Charles Darwin returns to Bahia Brazil - 1836
192. Slavery abolished through out the British Empire - 1834
193. London Bridge opens to traffic - 1831
194. Belgium King Willem I accept blame in Southern defeat - 1814
195. Rare tornado hits Westchester County, New York - 1812
196. Battle of Abukir on the Nile-Nelson defeats French fleet - 1798
197. Whiskey Rebellion begins - 1794
198. France becomes 1st country to use the metric system - 1793
199. 1st U.S. census, population of 3,939,214 - 1790
200. U.S. Customs begins enforcing Tariff Act - 1789
201. Caroline Herschel becomes 1st woman discoverer of a comet - 1785
202. English army under general Cornwallis occupies Yorktown, Virginia - 1781
203. Sweden declares neutrality - 1780
204. Priestly discovers oxygen - 1774
205. Battle at Minden, Westfalen: Ferdinand van Brunswick beats France - 1759
206. Foundation laid for Bank of England - 1732
207. 1st sculling race (London Bridge to Chelsea) - 1716
208. Waterman's race on Thames 1st rowed - 1716
209. Monarch Georg Ludwig becomes king George I of England - 1714
210. Surrounded Czar Peter the Great flees Azov - 1711
211. Battle at Staffarda: French army beats Victor Amadeus van Savoye - 1690
212. Battle at St. Gotthard: Earl Raimondo Montecucculi beats Ahmed Koprulu - 1664
213. Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism - 1628
214. Earl Earnest Casimir conquerors Oldenzaal - 1626
215. 1st black Americans (20) land at Jamestown, Virginia - 1619
216. Murder attempt by monk Jacques Clement on French King Hendrik III - 1589
217. English Admiral Howard van Effingham beats Spanish Armada - 1588
218. Christopher Columbus lands on "Isla Santa" (Venezuela) - 1498
219. Henry (VII) Tudors army sails to England - 1485
220. Earl Engelbert I of Nassau marries Johanna of Poland - 1404
221. Everlasting League forms, basis of Swiss Confederation (Independence) - 1291
222. Alexius IV Angelus appointed co-regent of Byzantium - 1203
223. Peace Treaty of Venice: Emperor Frederik I and Pope Alexander III - 1177
224. English barons become submissive to king Willem the Occupier - 1086
225. Synod of Pavia: emperor Henry II convicts married priest - 1021
226. Aghlabidisch emir Ibrahim II destroys Taormina, Sicily - 0902
227. Peace of Koblenz: Charles the Bare, Louis the German and Lotharius II - 0860
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